[IC Thread] Delving the Mists

[Pyrex]

Anton nods, "That's ok, it gives me enough to get started with, thanks for your help." With that, Anton turns and leaves, headed to the Boar's Whisker.

OOC1: Unless you want to handle it differently, I'm assuming that you'll make Sense Motive checks for me (+14 vs Humans) as necessary. Fine by you?

OOC2: As of now, I'm offline until sunday evening. Cerebus, feel free to autopilot the investigation if you want to keep things moving.

 

[Telsar]

Spoiler

At the acolyte’s words, Natalie muses “I never knew mystical healing could make someone worse. But I guess that means you do have hope for an eventual recovery. That’s good. Our understanding is that she’s had a visitor, her son Robert. Did he happen to leave word with you with how to contact him, in case there’s news about his mother?”

If giving them a few minutes to get a nurse and a few more minutes for them to unwrap the bandages won’t make Natalie and Orum late for their meeting, then Natalie says that she would like to see the injuries. “At the very least, I’d like to keep in mind what the perpetrator is capable of, and seeing the damage will help..” Otherwise, if they’ll be late, Natalie will instead find out what time usually the bandages are changed, so she’ll know when to come back.

 

[Salzorin]

Spoiler

After making careful note of what building the man disappeared into, Quilan flees the scene quickly and makes haste back to the office.

 

[Cerebus13]

Pyrex (NPC'd until Sunday):

Anton pauses for a moment to speak in a low voice to Alyson. "I don't think it is a good idea to be so...vocal about the things we are investigating. I don't want the police to get all up in arms about us taking over their jobs for them, so lets just try to work together with them. I'm going to head over to the Boar's Whisker and spend some time interviewing people there to see if I can turn up anything. I'll see you again a bit after sundown."
Anton gives a quick nod to Alyson before heading out the door.

Spoiler

Anton spends a moment on the side of the street outside getting his bearings. Glancing at the address listed on the papers he has he sets out in the general direction of the Boar's Whisker. He arrives there a few hours before sundown and begins speaking to the few patrons around.
He asks questions like: Do you know Onar Dyem or Goilon Lurilis? Have you seen them lately? Were you around here during the bar brawl? Did you know the guy who died during it, Ronald Gwalk? Did you catch a glimpse of anyone using a blade in that fight? Did anyone try to run out during the fight?

The answers are wide and varied:
A few people knew Onar and Goilon vaguely because they have been to their main hangout, "Andrew's", another small pub across town.
Haven't seen either of them since the brawl.
A few of the patrons were around the night of the brawl...none admit to participating in it.
Most of them knew Ronald as being a bit loud and bullying at times, but generally a nice guy. They don't think he had any family but he may have had a girlfriend who he talked about from time to time.
Nobody saw a blade during the fight.
A few guys noticed Goilon running out at some point during the brawl, but don't know if it was before or after Ronald was stabbed.

Red the bartender is able to give Anton an address for where Ronald lives, a small apartment in a semi-poor section of town. Red says that Ron was a fisherman by trade and thus wasn't very rich, but lately had been tossing a bit more money around buying drinks and such. Red doesn't think he gambled or anything so isn't sure where he could have come into the extra cash.

Anton thanks everyone for answering his questions and says he may stop in again sometime if needed. He noticed that it has gotten dark outside after the time spent talking to people, so he decides it would be best to head back to the office and meet everyone.

Anton arrives back at the office about a half hour before the time he had indicated previously, and he simply waits around for everyone to get back.

[OOC: Yup I'll be handling all of the rolls that you shouldn't know the actual results on. If you sense something from a person you are talking to I will indicate it with phrases like...."you don't feel Mr. X is telling the whole truth". I will also be NPCing Anton to simply interview as many people as he can before going back to the office to keep things moving along.]

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Telsar & Gram:

Spoiler

"I am not very skilled in the healing arts, but one of our more experienced brethren has explained to me that the nature of her broken skull makes it very dangerous to heal at a fast rate. He brain has swollen slightly due to the injuries to her head and if we simply knitted everything back together it might put a lot of pressure on it...so natural healing is really best in this situation. We have high hopes that she will recover physically, but we don't know if she will ever wake again.

Yes yes Robert...." She shuffles through some papers. "He left only a vague address for where he lives, an apartment building on..." She describes the block that it is on to you and you recognize it. "He visits often enough however that we didn't feel the need to poke into his private affairs too much, since he is grieving still and all."

A nurse is soon secured and she explains that procedure is very quick but must be done everyday to prevent infection. You follow her upstairs to Ms. Duffin's room and she lets herself in and sets some towels, a bowl of steaming water, and a few jars of various liquids on the table next to the bed. Carefully unravelling the bandages she allows you to see the partially healed wounds.
Most of Ms. Duffin's hair has been trimmed away to make cleaning the wound easier. The back of her head is covered with large blotchy bruises of many different colors. In a few places there are some deep cuts that have been neatly sewn up with a needle and thread. The nurse explains that it is slightly hard to see the places where her skull was broken and points them out as a few bumpy and uneven points on Ms. Duffin's head.
When you are finished examining the wounds the nurse goes about cleaning Ms. Duffin's head with a combination of hot water and the liquids from the jars. She rewraps the wounds with some bandages she had brought up with her, and after it is finished gathers up her medical materials and walks with you back downstairs.

You glance outside one of the windows and notice that it is still a bit light outside, but it will be getting dark very soon.

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Salzorin:

Spoiler

You make it back to the office without incident and see that Anton is the only one who has arrived so far.

 

[Telsar]

Spoiler

Natalie goes out of her way not to show any emotion at seeing the elderly woman’s condition. But after the suppressed shock is over with, she tries to determine if the deep cuts were caused by a weapon. Most of the damage seems by blunt trauma, which makes the most sense, but deep cuts seem odd in a rape, especially to the head. Wish Alyson was here, she knows more about this sort of thing. If Natalie can’t make a judgement on the matter, she asks the nurse her opinion on what could have caused the cuts.

Downstairs, seeing how late it’s getting, Natalie says to Orum “We should get going. It wouldn’t look good to miss an important meeting during our first day at a new job.” She says to the acolyte at the desk, “If this Robert should come back, do us a favor and don’t mention that we needed his address. If he’s not involved, it’s probably good for him to know we’re on the case. But if he is involved, we don’t want him worrying about us tracking him down.” Natalie and Orum will then return to their offices, walking briskly so as not to be late.

 

[Cerebus13]

Telsar & Gram:

Spoiler

The nurse says, "Those wounds were likely inflicted by a blunt weapon with sharp protrusions on it, like a spiked mace or flail." Downstairs the acolyte agrees to not tell Robert anything about you...and you head out the door.

Arriving back at the office some time later you see that Quilan and Anton are already here waiting for the rest of the group to show up for the meeting.

 

[Telsar]

Natalie says to the assembled group, "Sorry if we're a bit late. Orum and I got a little stuck at the hospital, going upstairs and downstairs twice before I was satisfied. One of the rape victims was there, in a terrible condition..." She'll relate the progress of their limited investigation.

[OOC can we just let the players read our blackened text now? Or would you prefer we type out what info we share?]

Natalie says "The case doesn't seem, so far anyway, to have any supernatural elements. Probably something only one or two of us need to devote our attention to. What about you two? Anything unusual going on with your cases?" She looks around a bit, "And um, any word from Alyson?"

 

[Fangor the Fierce]

With a quick nod to Anton, Alyson shows that she will try to keep a lower profile in these cases. Glancing at the man who had given her the information on Seth, she simply sighs. "Well Kalri, looks like we should get going then."

If the body has not been buried yet, they would like to see it. If not....

They head out to the apartment complex where the suicide took place, also seeing if the room has not been touched since the suicide. If not, they will inspect it for anything else out of the ordinary. Windows will get special attention as well as any other conveivable exit/entry to the apartment besides the door. They will inspect anything of note, and try to talk to any neighbors about any people seen going in or out of the mans apartment as of lately that may draw attention. They will also ask if anyone knows of this Scarlet, mentioned in the letter.




OOC - Sorry for not posting as often as I would like, but I am on vacation and have my little sister visiting. Thanks...

 

[Cerebus13]

Anton shakes his head lightly. "I haven't seen her yet, but there is still some time before we have to go."

Fangor:

Spoiler

The officer at the desk indicates that he doesn't know if the body has had a proper burial yet, you would have to go to morgue and inquire there to be sure.

You travel to the apartment next using the address provided in the notes from the case. It takes a bit of time because it is a rather long walk. After arriving you go upstairs to the room and try the doorway, it is unlocked. Inside the room looks to have been cleaned up a bit and all things related to the tragic event were removed and brought to the police station. The room still looks unoccupied, probably because no one wants to rent it so quickly after someone died inside of it.

An examination of all of the windows and the single door into the apartment reveal only one small thing out of place. One the outside sill of one of the windows there is a small but deep gouge in the wood. You are unsure where it came from but it doesn't look to have been placed there accidentally.

You spend some time speaking to the neighbors about any friends of the deceased, or anyone who goes by the name "Scarlet". Folks say that Mr. Rumit was a bit of a drunk at times and would often stumble home with the assistance of another man who would help him up the stairs. In the last month or so these bouts of drinking ceased and Mr. Rumit would begin returning home by himself late at night, completely sober. One old woman mentions that she used to notice Harold carrying around a lock of red hair tied onto a necklace. He would often pause to smell it and smile to himself. [OOC: nothing like this was found on his body or in the apartment]

You notice that it is getting very close to sundown so you will need to conclude your interviews if you wish to make it back to the office in time to meet everyone again.

 

[Pyrex]

Once everyone has returned to HQ, Anton fills them in on his investigation of the stabbing (posts above have been un-spoilered)

"Madeline, has there been any word from Mr. Pettigrew? We should have heard from him by now."